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ERIC Number: EJ401229
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1989
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Children's Agency Beliefs, Cognitive Performance, and Conceptions of Effort and Ability: Individual and Developmental Differences.
Chapman, Michael; Skinner, Ellen A.
Child Development, v60 n5 p1229-38 Oct 1989
Among 120 fourth and sixth graders, correlations between intelligence scores and agency beliefs for effort decreased with increasing levels of reasoning about effort and ability. Correlations between intelligence scores and agency beliefs for ability increased with increasing levels of reasoning. (RH)
Descriptors: Ability, Age Differences, Beliefs, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Individual Differences, Intelligence
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Agency Beliefs; Developmental Differences; Effort; West Germany